Blog - What to do before selling or giving away your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Blog - What to do before selling or giving away your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

What to do before selling or giving away your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Use these steps to remove your personal information from a device, even if you don't have it anymore.

If you still have your iOS device

Before you sell or give away your device, you should remove your personal information. You shouldn't manually delete your contacts, calendars, reminders, documents, photo streams, or any other iCloud data while you're signed in to iCloud with your Apple ID. This would delete your content from the iCloud servers and any of your devices signed in to iCloud.

If you no longer have your iOS device

If you're using iCloud and Find My iPhone on the device, sign in to icloud.com/find, select the device, and click Erase. After the device has been erased, click Remove from Account.

If you can't follow either of the above steps, change your Apple ID password. This won't remove personal information that's stored on your old device, but it will prevent the new owner from deleting your information from iCloud.